LibriVox recording of Through the Looking-Glass, by Lewis Carroll.

Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871) is a work of children's literature by Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson), generally categorized as literary nonsense. It is the sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865). Although it makes no reference to the events in the earlier book, the themes and settings of Through the Looking-Glass make it a kind of mirror image of Wonderland: the first book begins outdoors, in the warm month of May, on Alice's birthday (May 4),[1] uses frequent changes in size as a plot device, and draws on the imagery of playing cards; the second opens indoors on a snowy, wintry night exactly six months later, on November 4 (the day before Guy Fawkes Night),[2] uses frequent changes in time and spatial directions as a plot device, and draws on the imagery of chess. In it, there are many mirror themes, including opposites, time running backwards, and so on. (Summary by Wikipedia)


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Artist/Composer: Lewis Carroll
Date: 2009-08-09
Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text
Keywords: librivox; literature; audiobook; childrens; adventure; fiction; carroll; alice

Creative Commons license: Public Domain

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Reviewer: JohnnyJ - - March 23, 2011
Subject: Not my kind of story
I didn't enjoy the story, but all readers are fine and easy to understand.